Software
Runtimes, orchestration, fleet management and MLOps for the edge
Edge AI software covers inference runtimes, container orchestration for constrained sites, device fleet management, model deployment pipelines and observability.
Representative platforms with the details engineering and procurement teams shortlist on.
Apache 2.0 lightweight CNCF-conformant Kubernetes distribution shipped as a single binary under 100 MB.
Container-based fleet platform with over-the-air updates and support for more than 80 device types.
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Industrial AI company
Industrial automation and software group whose SIMATIC IPC industrial PCs and Industrial Edge platform bring application and AI workloads alongside controllers and plant data.
Munich, Germany
Software provider
Provides computer vision tooling including the open-source Inference package and inference server, covering model loading, pre- and post-processing and workflow execution on edge devices.
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Software provider
Edge MLOps platform, now part of Qualcomm, for collecting data, training and deploying models to microcontrollers, NPUs, CPUs and GPUs across a broad partner hardware ecosystem.
San Jose, California, United States
Software provider
Container-based platform for deploying and managing fleets of Linux edge devices, with over-the-air updates, an API and SDK, and support for a large catalogue of device types.
Remote / Seattle, United States
Software provider
Originator of K3s, the lightweight CNCF-conformant Kubernetes distribution now a CNCF project, widely used to orchestrate containerised AI workloads on edge and Arm hardware.
Nuremberg, Germany
Software provider
Maintains the MIT-licensed Ollama runtime for pulling and serving open-weight language and multimodal models locally on workstations, servers and capable edge systems.
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Originated ONNX Runtime, the MIT-licensed cross-platform inference accelerator, and publishes the Phi family of small open-weight models aimed at low-latency local inference.
Redmond, Washington, United States